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… for her ungovernable behaviour and vicious personality. Notably, crowds flocked to see Queen Charlotte’s zebra at Buckingham palace where they had the chance to admire for free the black-and-white striped beast always kicking and biting her keepers. Brought from South Africa as a wedding gift from Sir Thomas Adams for young Queen Charlotte, … and corruption attracting numerous pickpockets. Despite these mass crimes which occurred at the stables of Buckingham Palace or around the zebra’s paddock, the Georgians were still attracted by the Queen’s royal menagerie. …
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